After last year’s okra adventures, when they all got completely smothered by the tomatillo plants, I had another go at it. This time, planting them in front.
I know I didn’t give last year’s okra (your standard Clemson Spineless) a fair shake, but I decided to try a new variety this year. Preferably in a different color, since I like my food to be pretty. After poring through a mountain of seed catalogs with dozens of potentials, I decided on Bowling Red okra.
I’ve never tried to grow celery. Heard it was kinda finicky and you’ll never end up with what you find in the store. Not that that usually stops me, but in this case, I just couldn’t do it. We don’t eat celery all that often, but I do like the flavor it adds. As tends to happen, one thing led to another, and I first ran into lovage, then pursued it a bit further to cutting celery (also sometimes called leaf celery). Both can be used as substitutes for regular celery, though it sounded to me like lovage had a slightly different flavor. And so just like that, we planted some cutting celery.
